Remembering Leo Breiman

DOI10.1214/10-AOAS427zbMATH Open1220.62002arXiv1101.0917OpenAlexW1983628072MaRDI QIDQ542912FDOQ542912

Authors: Adele Cutler 

Publication date: 20 June 2011

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Leo Breiman was a highly creative, influential researcher with a down-to-earth personal style and an insistence on working on important real world problems and producing useful solutions. This paper is a short review of Breiman's extensive contributions to the field of applied statistics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0917

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zbMATH Keywords

random forestsboostingtreesbaggingarcing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of statistics (62-03)

Cites Work

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• Random forests
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• Statistical modeling: The two cultures. (With comments and a rejoinder).
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• Arcing classifiers. (With discussion)
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• Archetypal Analysis
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• Stacked regressions
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• Process consistency for AdaBoost.
• Sparse boosting
• On a simple estimation procedure for censored regression models with known error distributions
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• Toward quantifying vertex similarity in networks
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Uses Software

• archetypes
• GeneSrF
• ElemStatLearn

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